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Texas Art Teacher Certification Exam

Subjects : teaching, arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Watercolor with inert white pigment mixed in. Inert pigment is pigment that becomes colorless or virtually colorless paint. In gouache - it serves to make the color opaque - which means it is used at full length - watercolor mixed with a high concent






2. Printmaking where the design is scratched into the steel plate with a hard - steel tool






3. An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel - or impression - of the piece they were drawing - An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel - or impression - of the piece they were drawing






4. Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines






5. Wrought iron - hammered copper - painted tin NOT pewter






6. Spanish founder of cubism; made Les Demoiselles d'Avignon to seek to create a new visual reality and provoke revolutionary upheaval; his figures are broken into large - flat planes with dislocated body parts; used African masks; very non-Western; Gue






7. A structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops






8. Technique of shading using dots to control value






9. Term used to describe the many degrees of shading between black and white






10. Pale green






11. Incised engraving - the process of printing from engraved plates - a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate - ex: the plate is smeared with ink and Then wiped clean. The ink left in the recesses is what makes the print.






12. A philosophical doctrine and literary and dramatic movement that insists on the existence of individuals as basic and important. believes that the world is inhernetly meaningless and individuals must find meaning in their literal - concrete existence






13. Emphasis of this architecture is on the horizontal






14. Method of painting in which the colors are mixed with egg yolk or other substances - instead of oil






15. Joining small pieces of metal together using molten metal - bonding metals and alloys that melt at temperatures below 840






16. Where the revolving door was fully developed






17. Made possible by the contrariety between grease and water - printing produced through the use of ink on a flat surface (e.g. - stone or metal - A print produced by a printing process in which a smooth surface is treated so that the ink will adhere on






18. The threads running from side to side across a fabric; wool






19. A matted tangle of hair or fiber






20. Processes designed to produce tonal effects






21. A coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue - stiff-finished cotton or linen used for linings of garments






22. Pottery that has been fired but not yet glazed.






23. A plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder - which in turn transfers it to the paper






24. A solid screen - covered with icons - at the front of the church - dividing the sanctuary from the body of the building.






25. To raise a relief design on the surface of paper through pressure-raised paper to form image - with or without ink printed






26. A print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil






27. A fabric-dyeing method which uses wax to coat areas that don't need to be dyed






28. Enameling technique - used more gold and less color than cloisonne. Starts with thick gold piece - cut tiny troughs wherever want color to be - gold is most prominent in end - rarely has patterns engraved.






29. Italian 'light-dark'. The gradation of light and dark values in two-dimensional imagery; especially the illusion of rounded - three-dimensional form created through gradations of light and shade rather than line.






30. Formed in relief by beating a metal plate from the back - leaving the impression on the face






31. Renowned for paintings and prints






32. A porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area - Roman buildings followed this Greek architectural style






33. In lithography - a waxy substance used to draw or paint images on a lithographic stone or plate






34. A decorative design made of one material sewn over another






35. Period in which stained glass windows were introduced for church decoration






36. A style of abstractionism popular in the 1960s - modern technique with which a painter creates optical illusions with the use of dazzling patterns - abstract art athat uses geometric shapes and vivid colors to create optical illusions - such as an il






37. An Italian movement begun shortly before and during WWI. It depicted dynamic movement and stressed the violence and speed of the Machine Age. They advocated revolution and glorified war.(Balla - Severini - Boccioni)






38. Printing process in which the printing plate that has raised that is rolled with ink to print.






39. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof






40. A loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads - French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)






41. Technique of ornamenting in which small grains of metal - usually gold - are soldered to a flat surface






42. The amount of light reflected by a hue






43. Which emphasized the artist's free expression of emotion - flourished in Germany in the year immediately prior to the outbreak of World War I. Georges Rouault (1871-1958) - a French painter - is regarded as this type of painter. Portrayal of reality






44. A plain woven lightweight - extremely sheer - airy - and soft silk fabric - containing highly twisted filament yarns. The fabric - used mainly in evening dresses and scarves - can also be made from rayon and other manufactured fibers






45. French painter who was an early cubist (1881-1955) - Influences include hard sharp precision of a machine age






46. Creates blue dye






47. French Painter - who started his career as a caricaturist - then converted to landscape painting by his early mentor Boudin. From 1890 he concentrated on series of pictures in which he painted the same subject at different times of the day in differe






48. A coarse - inexpensive - woven fabric; often used for making grain sacks






49. Material used to imbed rings - bracelets - necklaces -etc when making hand-wrought jewelry






50. Network Interface Card; the device that enables a workstation to connect to the network and communicate with other computers.